So on a third straight day of wandering around bus yards in San Francisco, I’m pretty sure that I’m on the verge of going insane. On top of that, I get carsick just looking at one of these bad boys right now. I guess that’s what 10 hours of bus riding while working on a computer will do to you.
Heading home tomorrow hopefully, so maybe I can escape these beasts.
So I have spent the last two days riding around and around US101 here in California on buses doing some testing. I’m pretty sure I’m perpetually carsick now.
I don’t really know how else to say it, but things are just getting a little out of hand.
People are starting to cut back on driving a bit….but will it really help?
Stay and I ran a 5K in Brookhaven this morning. It’s the first time I’ve really ran since the ING……and it showed, but I was mainly out there to see how my knee felt. I went to the orthopedist this week to get it checked out since it’s still sore after the ING and he gave me a referral to a physical therapist. We’ll see how it all goes. Anyways, we’re sitting down now to eat some chili-cheese dog……at 10 in the morning. That’s okay, right?
Just wanted to drop in and let everyone know I’m still around, just been a crazy month with everything at work and life in general. I’ll get more updated soon.
So the ING half marathon came and went this past weekend and, thankfully, I made it through it. It was a great weekend to spend time with friends, some local, some out-of-town and then sleep for two days to try to recover from it all. I ended up beating my goal of 2:30 and ran a 2:29:27. So far, 4 of us are registered for the RnR half marathon back home in Virginia Beach over Labor Day weekend and I’m definitely looking forward to the chance to spend the time at home with friends and family.
Braves season has finally started and we’re getting things rolling with BravesBlast nicely. It’s nice to be back in Turner Field watching baseball for another season.
There’s not too much new really, just resting and recovering from the race and staying busy with work. I did get stranded in Boston last week, but that’s another story for another day.
Well, I survived the 10k in Atlantic Station yesterday. Given the way my foot and knee have felt lately, I feel like I did surprisingly well for myself. I finished in 1:04:47, which gives me a pretty big mental boost for the upcoming ING half marathon in two weeks. I’m fighting with a pretty sore knee now, but the foot held up quite well, so overall, I’m pretty happy. I’m going to try and lay off the running a bit until the ING and spend time in the pool instead. Hopefully I can get the knee feeling decent in time for the half marathon. Then, depending on how it feels after the race, I’ll get into the doctor if need be and get it checked out.
Other than that, I’m headed to Florida with Lindsay, Colin and Charles over Easter to catch a few Braves spring training games and enjoy the beach. The current forecast is for 80s and sunny in Cocoa Beach where we’re staying. Let’s hope it stays that way so we can enjoy the beach and have some good coverage for BravesBlast
It’s a little weird and kind of surreal to see places that you go a few times a week on the news being destroyed by storms. Not to mention that it kept me up until 4 in the morning wtching the news. I don’t really know. It almost doesn’t seem real to see it on TV; much more like a movie. Anyways, I hope everyone faired well through the storms.
We’re about two weeks into having the new BravesBlast site design up and running and I’ve sorted through most of the bugs that come along with a new design. So that gives us about a month before the season to make any little tweaks and changes that we need to.
A little background on the site: I’ve tossed around the idea of starting a Braves site for a couple of years now, but didn’t really have the time or the resources to do so (not that I completely do now, but that’s irrelevant). Finally towards the end of last season, while brooding over the fact that the Braves weren’t going to make the playoffs again, I decided it was time to give it a go. So I enlisted the time of a friend, Colin (http://www.colinake.com), and we got to work on that. It hit me today that that was almost 6 months ago, but we’ve definitely come a long way in that amount of time.
We’ve put together a staff of 7 to keep the content flowing (though this still proves difficult at times) and have a new site design up and running finally. So hopefully we can keep building traffic and see the site to continue to evolve. Stop by and take a look: http://www.BravesBlast.com.
That’s really about it, other than Allie being a badass for winning the Alpharetta marathon in 2 hours 53 minutes.
So it’s been a tough week for getting back to the office from lunch breaks. So far this week, Charles and I are 0 for 2 in trying to make it back to the office quickly. Monday, we were the first car behind the trucks that were painting street lines on the road that leads up to our office. The half-mile trek took about 10 minutes. Then yesterday, we got caught in the jungle of school buses trying to leave the neighborhoods around my house and dump their loads of children (that the proceed to just run rampant through the middle of the streets for the next 5 minutes). The return trip from my house (slightly over a mile) took about 15 minutes. So the real question is, what can happen today?
Things are going pretty well overall. As you may or may not have seen, I’ve been doing a lot of work on the BravesBlast site and have managed to crash this website about a dozen times in the process, but it works as a pretty good test bed. Hopefully the new design there’ll be up by the weekend so that we can submit our media credential application for the upcoming season.
I contacted Atlanta Habitat for Humanity again and scheduled the first available day for our group again. Unfortunately we’ll have to wait until May for that, but it’s better than never. More to come on that as it gets closer. I hope everyone’s doing well and staying mostly busy.
If you notice anything goofy or messed up with how my website looks in the next day or two, don’t worry about it too much. I’m using JonathanTorrell.com to build and work on the new layout for BravesBlast so that I don’t have to bring that site down in the process. Just wanted to give everyone the heads up before I started trying to break things and see what I can do with them.
I hope everyone’s having a great weekend.
Jonathan Paul Shirlock
10.06.1981 ~ 04.06.2006
i'll call you later on today.